Firefox, especially when going to Facebook, causes Ubuntu 9.10 to logout

Bug #468781 reported by Toxidyne
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

When pointing Firefox to Facebook, Firefox appears to logout the current user reguiring the use to log back in. This also happens to other web sites, but less so. For example going to www.boardgamegeek.com can also cause the issue.

I am running on a Toshiba Satellite M35X-S329 laptop.

My expectation is that using Firefox will not log me out of my Ubuntu 9.10 user session.

Note that Ubuntu does not crash.

Upon logging back in to my user session and upon launching Firefox, Firefox reports an error stating that it is unable to restore the previous session.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 1 07:14:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2799): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2882): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2903): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:2881): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -9 and height 25

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Toxidyne (nwitchey) wrote :
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Mynx (mynx) wrote :

Looks like you had a small problem:
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2799): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2882): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2903): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:2881): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -9 and height 25

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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dennygoot@gmail.com (dennygoot) wrote :

This bug also effects me. When using Firefox on Xubuntu 12.10 64 bit edition, after attempting to post a picture or other activity on facebook (sometimes just loading the page) I get logged out.

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